John Croft:

>Murzak Koba also seems to have extended northwards into the Urals
>forested region, and may have spread into the area later occupied
>by the Uralic languages. Could this have been the ancestor of both
>Indo-European and Uralic/Yukaghir?

Last time I left the problem of the relationship between
IndoTyrrhenian (IndoEuropean, Tyrrhenian) and Boreal
(UralicYukaghir, ChukchiKamchatkan, EskimoAleut), I had concluded
that IndoTyrrhenian and Boreal had had prolonged contact, between
approximately 8500 and 7000 BCE, after they would have diverged
from ProtoSteppe located in the Central Asian steppes region. This
would have caused some similarities in their early vowel systems,
for instance (an adoption of a centralized or partially centralized
vowel system due to areal influences stemming from NWC).

Just a thought anyways. It was an idea I was playing with but I've
been too busy lately with job hunting to delve deeper. Damn economy!


- love gLeN


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